A 15,600-year old footprint discovered in southern Chile is believed to be the oldest ever found in the Americas, according to researchers.
A jawbone found in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau in China is providing surprising insights into Denisovans, the enigmatic extinct cousins to Neanderthals and our own species, including that they were pioneers at enduring high-altitude environments.
Guatemalan ‘potbelly’ sculptures suggest people knew about magnetism more than 2,000 years ago
Empedocles didn’t make a periodic table, but identified basic concepts of matter and force
The fossils of Australopithecus sediba have fueled scientific debate since they were found at the Malapa Fossil Site in South Africa 10 years ago.
When paleontologists dug up the bones of Africa’s largest carnivore in the early 1980s, they had no idea what they had found.
According to a report in The Guardian, scientists have reconstructed the face of a dog that lived on Mainland, the largest of the Orkney Islands, some 4,500 years ago.
The fall of the Mayan Empire may be one of the biggest mysteries to emerge from the Yucatan peninsula. While the reason for its collapse has long stumped archeologists, a new team of researchers thinks they might finally know what happened.
The ancestors of the people who built Stonehenge travelled west across the Mediterranean before reaching Britain, a study has shown.
The fire engulfed one of the greatest architectural treasures of the Western world as tourists and Parisians looked on aghast from the streets below
